Ramasubramanian Sankar is a passionate, polyglot, fullstack developer, and a seasoned technical architect working in the Information Technology industry for over 13 years now. Specializing on JVM-based backend services and distributed systems, he has experience with a diverse set of platforms and languages. After having worked with service companies, banks, antivirus product companies, and product-based start-ups, he is currently working as a consultant for Ajira technologies in Chennai with a group of like-minded technologists. He is passionate about architecting and designing simple, high-performant, and clean solutions for complex business problems. He writes/rants about his learnings on Twitter (@ramsankar83) and on his technology blog (http://technicalitee.blogspot.in/). His current interest is in learning functional programming and putting it to practical use. He loves LISP and is actively looking forward to use it in production some day.
I would like to thank my wife, Gomathi, and kids for giving me the extra time to code outside work and review this book. I am grateful to my parents, Sankar and Geetha, for providing me with an education and buying my first computer. I would also like to thank my employer, Ajira technologies, for giving me the freedom and encouragement to try out cutting-edge tech in customer projects and, thereby, learn a lot.